Petition effort would block beating, strangling animals

Gene Baur is president and co-founder of Farm Sanctuary, whose volunteers visit farms, stockyards and slaughterhouses to document conditions and recommend more humane practices. In conjunction with the U.S. Humane Society and others, Farm Sanctuary is collecting signatures to get the Ohio Livestock Care Initiative, a proposed constitutional amendment, on the November ballot. The groups need to collect 402,275 valid signatures by June 29.